Sometimes parents have to explain things to their kids in more child-friendly terms. During World War II, that meant outfitting a child with a weird Mickey Mouse gas mask. It was 1942, just about ...

Disconcerting photos of Brits going about their daily lives and children playing—in gas masks. Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people homeless and killed 9,000 civilians in ...

A World War Two replica gas mask on loan from a museum for a window display was accidentally sold by a charity shop. The artefact was put in the window at St Roccos Hospice shop in Stockton Heath ...